Pyramid Trading Ltd are proud to announce that GCS Steels are now part of our group..... Need steel on the south coast? Call 01329 822082. We are currently delivering steel to Fareham, Gosport and Portsmouth daily....
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GCS Steels – a brief history……
George Cohen, Sons and Company was a scrap metal merchant
with offices in Commercial Road, London. The company was founded by George
Henry Cohen (d.1890) as Messrs. George Cohen & Co. in 1834 and changed its
name to George Cohen, Sons and Co. in 1883 on the appointment of Michael Cohen,
son of the founder. After the First World War the company won a number of large
contracts to dispose of surplus munitions including 400,000 tons of high
explosives and other shells. The company also engaged in demolition work, with
projects including the towers of Crystal Palace, which had survived the great
fire, the Dome of Discovery and Skylon at the Festival of Britain, and London's
tram system. In 1940 the company moved its head offices to Hammersmith.
In 1956 a holding company, 'The George Cohen 600 Group
Limited', was formed to control the original company and its many subsidiaries.
The '600 Group' name, derived from the company first address, 600 Commercial
Road, had been in informal use since 1945 or earlier.
In 1970 the '600 Group' set up a joint venture, 'Six Hundred
Metal Holdings', with Thorn Electrical Industries to operate the two companies'
metal-handling businesses. In 1975 the company name was changed to 'The 600
Group Limited', and in 1981 to 'The 600 Group PLC'.
In 1987 George Cohen, Sons and Company was renamed GCS
(Steels) Limited, part of the 600 Group. The scrap metal business was acquired
by Monks Ferry (Ship Breaking) Ltd. of St. Helens.
GCS (Steels) Limited traded successfully for over thirty
years from Northern Iron Works, Princes Street, Northam, Southampton and then
subsequently Northern Works, Fareham Road, Bridgemary, Gosport until its
closure on 28th June 2013.
GCS Steels (Gosport) Limited is now a wholly owned
subsidiary of Pyramid Trading Limited which also incorporates Pyramid Steel
Limited and PyraWeld Supplies who's present Managing Director and former
employee of GCS Steels will undertake to keep the good name of GCS Steels a
trading success.
